Theory
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Robert Skidelsky

5 Limits to Growth: Natural or Moral? Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out. – Oscar Wilde As well as failing ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Thomas Geoghegan

5 Clash of Civilizations Meanwhile, America had become dark. There was the nightmare of Bush v. Gore. We did not seem like a democracy. We had big tax cuts for ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Richard Heinberg

FIGURE 39. World Energy Use and GDP. Sources: US Energy Information Administration, International Monetary Fund. Another often-ignored factor skewing the energy-GDP relationship is outsourcing of production. In the 1950s, the ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1900-12-01 | Author:Thomas Sowell

Risk and Time To take an extreme example of how risk can vary over time, while a dollar invested in bonds in 1801 would be worth nearly a thousand dollars ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-20 | Author:Alan Greenspan

THE TURNING POINT The correlation between growing economic activity and growing weight of real GDP apparently peaked in the late 1970s. In recent years, the conceptual contribution to economic activity ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-03-24 | Author:de Graaf John

WEALTH AS DISPOSABLE TIME Neither would “an enforced equality of wages,” made law by a socialist government, lead to happiness, which, Marx believed, was to be found instead in our ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-20 | Author:Eric Hobsbawm [Hobsbawm, Eric]

The Influence of Marxism 1880–1914 practical concern, theorists needed Marx to discover them. Ostrogorski (1854–1921), exceptionally for a Russian, shows no more signs of Marx’s influence than de Tocqueville, Bagehot ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 25,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Ludwig von Mises [Ludwig von Mises]

______________ Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) was dean of the Austrian School of economics. This paper was prepared for the meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society held in Beauvallon, France, September ...
( Category: Theory March 25,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Ludwig von Mises [Mises, Ludwig von]

ON EQUALITY AND INEQUALITY I THE DOCTRINE OF NATURAL LAW that inspired the eighteenth century declarations of the rights of man did not imply the obviously fallacious proposition that all ...
( Category: Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |pt | 2009-09-15 | Author:Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner

Matters: The child had low birthweight. Doesn’t: The child attended Head Start. A child who had a low birthweight tends to do poorly in school. It may be that being ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 25,2014 )